The 2015 USAB Junior Nationals concluded Sunday in Orlando with some outstanding finishes for Team BBC! The Bellevue Badminton Club had a very strong presence at the tournament and several top five finishers, and most notably among them Alex La winning the U19 boys doubles!

After the first three days of competition in this year's USAB Junior Nationals in Orlando, 13 players from Team BBC have made it to the quarter finals. Clearly the hard work over last year is showing, and we are very proud of our whole team!

**Alex la reached the semi-finals with a victory today, sealing Team BBC’s first medal of the tournament!

Congratulations to our team so far! The three toughest days of the tournament still lay ahead of us. The USAB announced today that some of the matches on Saturday and Sunday (Semi-finals and Finals day) will be streamed online. We will update you when the streaming link is released.

We will be changing over to a new league software to run our existing leagues here at BBC. The Bellevue Badminton Club and Badminton America have teamed up to provide you a more quality and meaningful league experience. The leagues will remain in the same format and schedule you are accustomed to, but will be managed with a more comprehensive way of rating each player to ensure higher quality matches.

If you play in the leagues or would like to start playing in the leagues, you will need to have an account on the Badminton America Ratings site, which will be used for our weekly leagues.

A new and updated version of the website will go live before March 17th, which will be the first day of leagues on the new and improved Badminton America Site. Once the update occurs you will be able to register for your weekly leagues on the new software (You will not be able to register quite yet, but now worries! We will keep you posted). You will not have to do anything yet on the site except make sure you have an account.

In review:

1)If you plan on playing leagues, make sure you have an account on Badminton America.

2)Stay tuned for information on how to register for your leagues once the new site goes live.

Please be patient with us through this process as we transfer to a new system for leagues. We are confident the new Badminton America Rating site will provide a more quality league experience. Please let us know of any questions you may have regarding the signup process.

The Northwest Junior Regional was held this past weekend at the Bellevue Badminton Club. With 82 players in attendance, Juniors from our BBC training program shone in the spotlight. The level of play of our juniors has continued to rise over the years, and this year was no exception.

Congradulations to all of the finalists, whose results can be found here: FinalistsComplete tournament draws and results can be found here: Complete Draws

A big thanks goes out to our Umpires who volunteered their time to score matches all weekend. Also thanks to Nick Jinadasa, May Mangkalakiri, and the entire BBC staff and coaching staff for organizing the tournament and keeping it on schedule and running smoothly.

We hope to keep the momentum going through the holiday season as we prepare for the next Junior Regional Tournament to be held at BBC after the first of the year from January 17th - 18th.

18 of our most dedicated Juniors from the Bellevue Badminton Club Junior Team traveled to New Jersey to compete in the New Jersey Super Regional held from Saturday October 11th to Monday the 13th. 11 of our 18 team members that went reached the semi-finals in at least one event, making this one of our more successful tournament showings in terms of results (found here). However, more importantly, everyone who competed fought very hard and played extremely well, rising up to the challenge on many occasions to generate a few upsets, which is always a blast to watch. We are very proud of how our team conducts itself during tournaments, and even the tournament director pulled aside the BBC coaches to tell us how great it is to have such a respectful group at the tournament.

This trip wouldn't have been possible without the help of all of our Team parents in waking up at 3am to carpool to the airport Friday morning, helping bring lunch, dinner, and the kids to the gym during the tournament, and being so supportive of the team throughout. We truely have something special here at BBC with our team, and we will continue to work hard, train hard, and improve from this great result going forward into our next tournament, a Regional hosted at the Bellevue Badminton Club.

More details to follow regarding the Regional as we draw closer to the date.

Wish our Juniors luck as 18 members of the BBC Junior Team will travel to New Jersey to compete in the final Super Regional of the Year! The tournament will feature some of the best juniors in the country and provide plenty of tough competition for our team. As of posting this, the draws are not up yet, but you can follow our progress using the tournament software link below: